palace v brighton selhurst crowds

[Return of the Rev]

74/75 18,000
75/76 25,000
76/77 29,000-28,000
78/79 33,000
79/80 31,000
80/81 18,000
83/84 13,000
84/85 8,000
85/86 9,000
86/87 10,000
Did the rivalry die out after the 70's

 

[Storer 68]

Not really - it was called a RECESSION.

 

[loz]

Naa, just look at all crowds for all teams in the mid 80s, Chelsea used to get 8/9000 most weeks I think.

The trouble now is mid week games...why?? it must be harder to police? Bloody mid week in Jan.
You lose the kids because of school and to buy a ticket for a casual is just impossable..Grrr its not like we are going to kill each other, we are nice frendly rivals.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Strange to confirm the 80's with now.

The recession was harsh with so many manufacturing jobs going and so many re-possessions. Life was generally unsettled and there was also, strange how it may now seem, a real worry of nuclear war, tensions between the USSR & Usa, Thatcher & the unions plus the terrorist threat of the IRA.

Football crowds were falling all over. Grounds were neglected, hoollies were rife, matches were not the places for wimmin & kids. Yet, on the other hand, football was cheap.

Add to that, Albion & Palace had rose rapidly during the 70's. This was a bit of a hangover for both teams.

 

[n1 gull]

Football after Hillsborough and Heysel suffered everywhere. No one was up for a local derby with aggro etc..

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Mind you, tonight's crowd is pretty poor. How can Palace keep flirting with administration yet turn down the chance of a big away crowd?

 

[n1 gull]

Mind you, tonight's crowd is pretty poor. How can Palace keep flirting with administration yet turn down the chance of a big away crowd?

What is the crowd? I missed it putting kids to bed

 

[penny's harmonica]

What is the crowd? I missed it putting kids to bed

14500 pathetic

 

[cloud]

The trouble now is mid week games

And also seats instead of terracing

 

[loz]

14500 pathetic

17200 was stated over the tanoy, my eyes might not be that good..but could you really have got another 9000 in the ground?? are we sure it was only 2/3ds full?

Also the family stand was not full as people dont take kids for evening games in Jan!!!

 

[Brovion]

Not really - it was called a RECESSION.

Well things aren't exactly all that rosy now on the financial front: we could be in a double-dip recession and football is a lot more expensive today.

RoTR is right, the rivalry did die back a bit after the white-hot intensity of the 1970s, but also professional football in general was dying on its arse in the 1980s. Most on here for various reasons won't admit it (and it sticks in the craw a bit for me to say it as well) but one of THE big saviours of British football was Rupert Murdoch.